Webinar: Skills for Digital Health Literacy

Thursday 22 October, 2pm – 3:30pm, Online via Zoom

In an ever-changing online world, it can be hard to keep track of what health claims you can trust and how to check them. So we’re asking two literacy researchers what helps consumers build their skills and knowledge.

You’ll learn about:

• Skills you can build to get the most out of digital health information
• Tips and tricks to help you critically think about health claims from news, AI chats and social media
• How researchers are working with consumers to build practical skills and resources
• This session is open to all consumers, carers and community workers.

Meet the speakers
Saffron Howden is a leader in journalism and media literacy. Over the course of more than 25 years she has worked across Australia’s news media industry as a reporter and editor. Saffron is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Canberra investigating media literacy and misinformation.

Dr Julie Ayre is an National Health and Medical Research Council Emerging Leader Research Fellow (2023-2027) who leads the Equity Stream at the Sydney Health Literacy Lab, University of Sydney. Her research has focused on developing scalable digital technologies to increase uptake of health literacy practices, including the capacity of artificial intelligence to support this goal.

Learn more and register on Humanitix.